Directory /usr/games/bin not in my $PATH

[Honeyman]

Hi all,

I wanted to try out some games under Linux and had to realize that I can only launch games that come along the GNOME and KDE desktop environments (e.g. KAtomic, Granatier). Others like 0ad, FreeCiv, Danger From The Deep or the emulator Mupen64plus, I cannot run as normal user as the directory /usr/games/bin is not in my PATH. Is that on purpose? If so, what is the reason? Should/could I change that?

[Fitzcarraldo]

I have no idea why it is not in your path. Are you in the games group?

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$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.7.3:/usr/games/bin
$ groups
lp wheel uucp console audio cdrom video cdrw usb users lpadmin portage messagebus plugdev scanner vboxusers vboxguest pulse pulse-access entropy fitzcarraldo polkituser games
$

If you're not in the games group, log in as root user and add yourself to that group:

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# usermod -a -G games <your_user_name>

[Honeyman]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I am in the games group:

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$ groups
lp wheel uucp console audio cdrom video cdrw usb users bumblebee lpadmin portage messagebus plugdev scanner sabnzbd vboxguest pulse pulse-access entropy pascal polkituser games


On the other hand:

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echo $PATH
/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


It seems that something has gone wrong....

[Fitzcarraldo]

Add it to your path, then. See Chapter 5 of the Gentoo Handbook for instructions:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=2&chap=5

I'm on my main laptop running Gentoo at the moment, which has:

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$ cat /etc/env.d/90games
LDPATH="/usr/games/lib64:/usr/games/lib32:/usr/games/lib"
PATH="/usr/games/bin"
$

See aforementioned Gentoo Handbook for complete instructions, as you need to do more than just create/edit a file.

[Tedel]

I had the same problem. I noticed my /usr/games/bin folder is with wrong permissions:

owner: can read and write (correct)
group: can read (correct)
others: forbidden (incorrect)

See if you can reproduce in your machine and then change your folder permissions. You should be able to start the games.

[Honeyman]

Thanks for the hint to change permission on the folder /usr/games/bin.

In case somewhat is interested on how to do that:

Previous permissions were:

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ls  -l /usr/games/
rwxr-x--- 2 root games 4096 Jan 19 03:09 bin


Giving others permissions to execute programs:

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chmod 751 /usr/games/bin

# or

chmoad a+x /usr/games/bin


Checking for permissions:

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ls -l /usr/bin/games
drwxr-x--x 2 root games 4096 Jan 19 03:09 bin

# if yo wish in octal code

stat -c "%a %n" /usr/games
751 /usr/games


[Stupot]

I had the same problem. I noticed my /usr/games/bin folder is with wrong permissions:

owner: can read and write (correct)
group: can read (correct)
others: forbidden (incorrect)

See if you can reproduce in your machine and then change your folder permissions. You should be able to start the games.

Those permissions are considered correct. Any user who is supposed to be allowed to play games would simply need to be a member of group 'games'.

[Honeyman]

Those permissions are considered correct. Any user who is supposed to be allowed to play games would simply need to be a member of group 'games'.

Well, that was the point. I am member of the groups games, but still games binaries are not in my path environment.

[Stupot]

Those permissions are considered correct. Any user who is supposed to be allowed to play games would simply need to be a member of group 'games'.

Well, that was the point. I am member of the groups games, but still games binaries are not in my path environment.

Yes, I understand. I wasn't addressing you, I was addressing Tedel. The problem is not the permissions, it is your user's path.

[Honeyman]

Granted, you are correct to point that out. Should have read your post more carefully.